A team of 90 specialists has completed the assembly of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will drive the second bore of HS2’s Bromford Tunnel in Birmingham.
The majority of the 1,600t TBM’s parts have been re-used from the TBM Dorothy that completed HS2’s Long Itchington Wood Tunnel in Warwickshire in…
Campaigners opposing National Highways’ £1.7bn A303 tunnel underneath Stonehenge World Heritage Site are heading to High Court today, 12 December, for a three-day hearing.
The Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) campaign group and the Stonehenge Alliance are seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision to grant a development consent…
A consortium of CPB Contractors, Ghella and Acciona has been picked by the Victorian state government in Australia to deliver the AU$3.6bn (£1.8bn) tunnelling package for a new rail line in Melbourne.
The tunnel project will form part of the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East. The project is one of four…
Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn has commenced construction of the 88km of railway that will run up to the Ferhmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark.
The 18km Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel and the world’s longest underwater road and rail tunnel when…
The world record for the longest single tunnel boring machine (TBM) drive has been broken after Strabag reached the 25.8km mark of its 37km tunnel for the £7.2bn Woodsmith mine project in northern England.
Working on behalf of Anglo American, Strabag is constructing the tunnel for a planned polyhalite mine underneath…
National Highways has awarded the £1.34bn Tunnels and Approaches contract for its Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) scheme to a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics and J Murphy & Sons (BMJV).
BMJV was selected ahead of the other shortlisted contractors BFV JV (Bam, Ferrovial, Vinci) and DHJV (Dragados, Hochtief). At the…
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Flavia has recommenced its drive beneath the Alps for the Brenner Base Tunnel after spending seven months trapped in a fault zone.
The TBM is driving the western tunnel of the Mules lot, the biggest lot on the £13.2bn Brenner Base Tunnel project. The lot involves…
Use of artificial intelligence (AI), implementation of modern methods of construction (MMC) and a comprehensive pipeline of work should be “business as usual” in infrastructure delivery by 2025, according to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).
These business as usual expectations were the main theme in the IPA’s latest Transforming Infrastructure…
Construction of the German portal of the Fehmarnbelt fixed link at Puttgarden on the island of Fehmarn has commenced.
The 18km Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel and the world’s longest underwater road and rail tunnel when complete. The immersed tube tunnel will house…
Emergency drilling will take place in efforts to rescue 41 Indian construction workers who have been trapped for 10 days since the collapse of an under-construction tunnel in the Himalayas.
The workers are trapped in the Silkyara highway tunnel in Uttarkashi after a portion collapsed in the early hours of Sunday…
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